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* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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English - Noun

CONNOTATION (_plural_ CONNOTATIONS)
* A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
_The CONNOTATIONS of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine._
* A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with _denotation_.
_The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different CONNOTATIONS but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus)._
ANTONYMS
* denotation
SYNONYMS
* intension
RELATED TERMS
* connotative
* connotatively
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REFERENCES
* _Oxford English Dictionary_, Second Edition, 1989
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